Yellow-billed Cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) can only be found in a fraction of their former range in the American West, a decline linked to the loss of over 90 percent of their breeding habitat--the cottonwood and willow forests that once

The Canada Geese colony are peaceful residents of Lanes flat, Pauatahanui and are a beautiful aspect of the Porirua Harbour.A cull has been lobbied by Forest and Bird with the support of a Greater Wellington Regional Councillor

Thousands of birds in UK zoos are victims of 'pinioning', a practice where the end of one wing is permanently amputated. Pinioning is carried out on baby birds at only a few days old, usually without any pain relief. Why? To prevent them from

Due to the loss of habitat, prey and heavy hunting for meats, some of the Indian birds are on the verge of extinction. Poaching and massive hunting took these beautiful species birds into the category of critically endangered birds of India.

The California condor is extremely endangered and was reduced to just 8 in the wild in 1987. They still face one of the same problems that nearly led to their extinction in the first place in 1987. Lead poisoning following ingestion of carcasses shot

Please use the form below and urge Rosemont Realty to remove any poisons set on the premises. Ask the company to commit to using bird-control methods that everyone can live with, including the animals. And please, forward this alert widely!

The Gunnison Sage-Grouse has been identified by Audubon as one of the ten most endangered birds in the country. With fewer than 5,000 individuals left, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently proposed to list the species as "endangered" under ...

Each year, New Zealand authorities commission shooters to kill these birds in the Bay of Plenty (BoP) region. Birds that are merely injured are left to die slow, painful deaths. The offspring of adults also suffer death by starvation

Ask Acting Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to pressure the U.N. agency responsible for crafting international maritime laws to ban the dumping of PIB into the Arctic Ocean.

In the process of renovating an apartment building, a construction company sealed off some holes in exterior walls–while nests of birds were still inside. Despite demands from animal welfare groups and concerned citizens, the building’s management has refused to reopen the holes, and the baby birds inside have starved to death. Sign the petition demanding that the building’s management halt all further construction until nesting season has ended.

Owls that eat poisoned rats can be poisoned themselves. And its not limited to owls; hawks and other birds of prey are routinely poisoned and die as the result of eating rats that have ingested rat poisoning. Other birds can also be poisoned if insects

Already signed! This subject is A Big Bugbear to me as so many people have contempt and disrespect for the poor pigeon! They, too, are a Precious life! I hand reared an abandoned squab two years ago after she was found abandoned! It turned out that she had a deformed left foot and her right leg was splayed! I took her to a Vet for help and all he wanted to do was euthanase her, saying that she would never have any quality of life and would never be able to survive! Well, as I say, two years on here she is... An Intelligent, Beautiful Character, who flies freely around, can feed herself with plenty of food, has a comfy warm pet bed to sleep on at night and gets her stroking and preening from me! Plus and, most of important of all, she gets Lots and Lots of Love! Our Pigeon gives us so much love back in return and is a part of our family now with Our two dogs who love her too!

So Do Please sign this petition to save these Poor, Defenceless Birds!

Please contact Mayor Norm Rosenblum and tell him to cancel the mean-spirited plan to slaughter Canada geese. Remind him that goose roundups are monstrous--USDA agents typically enter the pond area during early morning, roughly separating goslings

Blue-footed boobies are aptly named, and males take great pride in their fabulous feet. During mating rituals, male birds show off their feet to prospective mates with a high-stepping strut. The bluer the feet, the more attractive the mate.

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Save the Eurasian Eagle OwlAnimals(tags: ) Cheyenne- 4 hours ago - owlpages.com Active mainly at dusk to dawn. Flight is noiseless, whith soft wingbeats interrupted by gliding when flying over long distance. Will sometimes soar. Eagle Owls have various hunting techniques, and will take prey on the ground or in full flight. ..

An office in Wichita, Kansas, has recently begun to use avian poisons, or avicides, in an attempt to control the bird population on its property. Avicides cause birds to suffer immensely and are not very effective long-term solutions. Sign the petition and urge Heartland Cardiology to find a new way to control the bird population.

Right now, a group of beverage industry giants led by Coca Cola are taking the Northern Territory Government to court for starting the territory's first ever 'Cash for Containers' recycling scheme. If Coca Cola's lawyers win the case, it could slam the br

Concerned Las Vegas citizens have alerted PETA to media reports indicating that the Regent at Town Center, a residential community managed by Excellence Community Management, plans to use the notorious bird poison Avitrol to kill unwanted birds

It is estimate that during the peak migration 12,000 - 14,000 birds are being hunted for consumption and commercial sale everyday. It is further estimated that 120,000 to 140,000 birds are being slaughtered in Nagaland every year during their passage...

Debeaking, or beak trimming, was started in the 1920's by farmers that began mutilating the beaks of chickens to prevent them from picking at each other, rather than improving the environment and providing more room for the birds.

This species is considered Endangered owing to its very small and severely fragmented population, which has continued to decline until very recently. However, trends appear to have stabilised or even reversed over the last five years.

This species qualifies as Vulnerable because it has a very small population, which is dependent on ongoing intensive management measures to mitigate the impact of threats such as poisoning, electrocution and insufficient food availability.

Rare resident from 600-900 m on the Pacific slope from Cauca and south to northwestern Ecuador (Hilty and Brown 1986). Restricted to the Pacific slope and lowlands in Chocó, Valle de Cauca, Cauca, and Nariño, Occurs in Los Farallones de Cali National

This speciesis classified as Vulnerable because remote-sensing data indicate that there has been a dramatic loss of lowland forest across its range and that it is therefore likely to be undergoing a rapid population decline.

Another wetland species suffering from the impacts of introduced aliens is Zapata Rail Cyanolimnas cerverai from Cuba. It has been uplisted to Critically Endangered and is under threat from introduced mongooses and exotic catfish

Habitat degradation and destruction are the most important threats to S. floris; records are infrequent and it has rarely been recorded during trips to several large forest tracts suggesting extreme low density and casting some doubt on the assertion

The Philippine eagle is one of the largest and most endangered eagles in the world. The raptor is currently documented on just four Philippine islands--Mindanao, Luzon, Leyte, and Samar. Scientists estimate that perhaps only a few hundred pairs remain

Every year, affluent Arabs come to Pakistan to hunt for fun, using birds of prey such as eagles and falcons. This sport of theirs bodes well for Pakistani tourism and diplomacy, but at the same time endangers the life of various vulnerable species that

Geese raised for down do not have a painless life. They are raised for down are live-plucked numerous times in their life. Some places that practice this will pluck the geese the first time when they are ten weeks old and then every six weeks thereafter,

Most New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the ongoing extermination of families of Canada geese - mothers, fathers and their goslings - all across the United States, and now in Scarsdale, New York.

According to news reports, dozens of pigeons were netted and taken from a Ward 46 neighborhood in Chicago this week by two Indiana "farmers." The men allegedly claimed that they would be transporting the animals to Indiana for "release" and that their

New York--The town of Scarsdale, NY announced it's hiring USDA agents next summer to extinguish the few Canada geese who reside at the pond near Scarsdale's library, and Friends of Animals, an animal advocacy group founded in 1957, is intervening

California's Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) is seeking to allow, and in some cases increase, the number of wild birds -- including hawks, falcons and owls -- who can be taken from the wild and used for the "sport" of falconry.